I think some of us think that if we could design our democracy again, we could probably put in a required percentage for women's participation.

So if we were going to go forward and try and include energy efficiency as part of a clean energy standard how would you suggest we do that?

Can you talk about whether you see a role for combined heat and power and waste heat recovery systems in a clean energy standard?

The fact is our light bulbs, our current, old incandescent light bulbs are the most inefficient, one of the most inefficient appliances we have in our homes.

I think it behooves us all not to engage in name calling of those officials who are trying to carry out the work.

I certainly appreciate your frustration, Senator Paul. I share it in some ways.

I think it's helpful to have an alternative that's better.

In addition to appliance standards what are other areas where we should be focusing on in terms of energy efficiency gains to achieve the greatest savings?

we have now almost a 9-percent unemployment rate in this country. I think the good news is that unemployment dropped to 8.9 percent, but it is still way too high. We have a $1.6 trillion deficit. Yet, despite these enormous challenges…

I thank Senator Harkin for his efforts over the years to try to move us to a biennial budget and a process that gets a budget done that makes a lot more sense and allows us to be a lot more thoughtful about how we are supporting programs…

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I think all of us here recognize how critical an issue that is for the country.